
1.IQ Option
Experienced users who want strong charts and a desktop app
- Min. deposit
- $10
- Min. trade
- $1
- Max. payout
- 95%
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The most complete platform and apps of the three, from a group with a CySEC-licensed EU arm. Binary products, however, come only from its unregulated international entity.

Key numbers
- Min. deposit
- $10
- Min. trade
- $1
- Max. payout
- 95%
- Break-even win rate
- 51.3%
- Demo balance
- $10,000
- Min. withdrawal
- $2
95% is the advertised maximum; observed payouts on gold were 86–88% at peak and 78–82% off-peak. Break-even win rate: Share of trades you must win to not lose money at the maximum payout. Lower real payouts raise this number.
Pros
- Strongest platform: web, Windows/macOS desktop, Android and iOS
- Digital options with adjustable strike prices, plus CFDs
- Long operating history since 2013
- Good charting and a responsive interface
Cons
- Binary and digital options only through an unregulated offshore entity
- Brazil's CVM sanction proceeding and warnings from MAS and RBI
- Inactivity fee after 90 days without trading
- Fewer crypto payment routes than competitors
Skip it if
You trade only now and then (inactivity fee) or withdraw several times a month
Trading
- Expiry times
- 60 seconds – 1 month
- Assets
- Forex, Crypto, Commodities, Stocks, Indices, ETFs (300+)
- Platform
- Web, Desktop app, Android, iOS
- Mobile app
- Android: Yes · iOS: Yes
- Copy trading / tournaments
- No / Yes
Deposits & withdrawals
- Deposit methods
- Bank cards, E-wallets, Local methods
- Withdrawal methods
- Bank cards, E-wallets, Local methods
- Withdrawal time
- Up to 3 business days; often faster
- Withdrawal fees
- One free withdrawal per month; further ones reported at 2% (min. USD 1, max. USD 30) – check current terms
- Inactivity fee
- About USD/EUR 10 per month after 90 days without trading
- Bonuses
- No bonus information confirmed in the sources we checked
- Account currency
- USD
Account & support
- Account levels
- Standard and VIP (VIP reported from about USD 2,000 deposits, non-EU)
- ID check
- Required before first withdrawal
- Support
- Live chat, Email, Phone, Help centre
- Founded
- 2013
Regulation
The group's EU company, IQ Option Europe Ltd, holds CySEC licence 247/14, but it cannot offer binary options to EU retail clients. Everyone outside Europe signs up with an offshore international entity that no financial regulator supervises; sources name it as registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines or, more recently, Sky Ladder LLC in Antigua and Barbuda, so check the legal page before you sign up.
- CVM (Brazil): Stop order and sanction proceeding (settlement rejected March 2026)
- MAS (Singapore): Investor Alert List (since 2017)
- Reserve Bank of India: Alert List (19 Nov 2025)
How the score is built
- Platform & apps (25%)4.8
- Costs & minimums (20%)4.2
- Payments (15%)4.4
- Support (15%)4.2
- Regulation & transparency (25%)2.6
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